Windows 7 RC Bits Expire June 1, 2010
For those of you who jumped on the Beta and RC bandwagon because you were excited to put the new Operating System to the test, we thank you. Now that you’ve been running it for close to a year, its time to start thinking about moving to the release product.
Do you have customers still using Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC)? If so, let them know that it is expiring soon:
- February 15 - They'll start seeing notifications on their PCs, warning them that their operating systems will expire soon and reminding them to back up their data.
- March 1 - Users' systems will reboot or go to a blue screen every two hours, depending on their system failure settings.
- June 1 - The Windows 7 RC license will expire.
- When it expires, the customer will receive notifications which are more intrusive and occur when logging on and when accessing system components such as the control panel.
- Finally, the desktop background will turn black with a non-genuine watermark.
Visit the Windows Blog one week prior to each expiration milestone for additional details.